Project Database
This searchable database of projects represents the range and diversity of work in the New Urbanism. From regional-scale visions to single-building historic renovations, CNU members and their allies build places people love through land use planning, development, policy, and advocacy. If you are aware of a project that you believe should be part of the database, please email Robert Steuteville or Lauren Mayer.
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Bulevar de Oriente
Cali, Colombia
Cali, Colombia's third most populous city, includes hundreds of thousands of households living in precarious circumstances. Many lack public services, mobility infrastructure, and adequate parks and open space.
Trappey and Bayou Vermilion Waterfront District Vision Plan
Lafayette, Louisiana
For three decades, the vacant Trappey cannery on the Vermilion River deteriorated, but thanks to community stakeholders, private developers, and the City of Lafayette, this prime site will become a new neighborhood.
Casa de Luz
Austin, Texas
Casa de Luz is a case study that teaches the value of thinking differently about health, food, parking, and community building. Although the project covers less than an acre, it has an outsized impact on the City of Austin, Texas.
Pullman Artspace Lofts
Chicago, Illinois
When neighborhoods revitalize, full-time artists are often squeezed out by skyrocketing rents.
Larkin Place
Elgin, Illinois
Larkin Place in Elgin, Illinois, consists of new multifamily buildings—designed to look like single houses—and the reuse of a historic orphanage into apartments and community space.
SCLT Headquarters
Providence, Rhode Island
Southside Community Land Trust (SCLT) was born in 1981 when Hmong refugees and Brown University graduates began growing healthy, culturally familiar food on vacant lots in south Providence, Rhode Island.
El Punto Neighborhood Revitalization
Salem, Massachusetts
A community-driven initiative has revitalized a disadvantaged neighborhood in Salem, Massachusetts, through public art, affordable housing, historic rehabilitation, and wide-ranging community projects.
Montgomery Park Master Plan
Portland, Oregon
A hundred years ago, iconic warehouse and industrial buildings were constructed that would define Northwest Portland.
Hammetts Wharf
Newport, Rhode Island
This 24,000-square-foot mixed-use building shows how to respect and enhance a 19th Century city while preparing for the impacts of climate change in the 21st Century.
Crosstown Concourse
Memphis, Tennessee
For two decades, the 1.3-million-square-foot former Sears distribution center sat empty in the midst of disinvested Memphis neighborhoods—a symbol of urban blight.